I wasn’t going to post the Postcards from Hell schedule, but I see that some others have, so what the hell, right? Get it, hell? August 4 – Wilted Lily by Henry Gee August 11 – One Thumb Up by Nick Mamatas August 18 – Dickey Size It by RJ Sevin August 25 – Dyscrasia by Gord Sellar Sept 1 – Footprints by Ann Leckie Sept 8 – Fitness is Its Own Reward by John Platt Sept 15 – One Step at a Time by Billy O’Calaghan Sept 22 – Ten by Kathryn Eason Sept 29 – The Cabinet of …
Month: June 2007
Government Plagiarism
Lime came and ranted briefly about how some Korean lawmakers apparently plagiarised content from Korean travel communities after a investigatory trip to Vietnam. They got caught, of course, which is how it’s in the news. What can I say? I’m not surprised. In Korea, plagiarism is widely acknowledged to be rampant. Foreigner after foreigner has told me stories of how articles, essays, magazine writing — not just student work but supposedly professional writing and even sometimes (?) scholarly work is directly plagiarized. Hell, Hyori isn’t the only pop star to be accused of ripping off foreign pop songs. (Though, with …
Forget Rain, Forget Hakwons. Parents: Think Kim Sun Wook.
Like any other Westerner in Korea, I’m completely amused, and unsurprised, by the way 비/Rain’s so-called “World Tour” is turning out to be a collossal failure. (Inadequate stage setup? I have trouble buying that, as do many others.) World popularity isn’t a nationalist-netizen-driven thing, as Rain and his promoters — and hopefully the Korean pop music industry, is painfully realizing. But there are Korean musicians who are world-class, and one of them is Kim Sun Wook, whom Lime just mentioned to me. Here’s an article on him from 2006, at KBS GLOBAL: Eighteen-year-old pianist Kim Sun-wook has won the 15th …
IROSF — The Ones to Watch
I forgot to post this: The Internet Review of Science Fiction had a piece about up-and-coming writers, and had a profile on the Texan fantasist (and my classmate) Shawn Scarber. Check it out: The Ones to Watch.
“Junk” not junk
My friend and Clarion West classmate David emailed me a link to this article. How amusing, that the story titled “Junk” that I sold only a couple of weeks ago, to Nature, had an eerily familiar proposition, at bottom. Do I get to claim I “got one right,” even if it’s published after the news broke? I wrote it last winter! But then, as David commented about his own suspicions, it’s long been imagined by some — me included — that the majority of the genome being “junk” is questionable. As I wrote to David: Of course, there were people …